Roller for skates



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E. P. BALLOU.

ROLLER FOR SKATES.

No. 285,783. Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

5 groove may be rectangular, square, or trape- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

EDWARD F. BALLOU, OF MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

' ROLLER FOR SKATES.

SPECIFICATION forming ,.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD FRANoIs BAL- LOU, of Marlborough, in the county of MiddleseX, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rollers for Skates, and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represeiitedin the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side view; Fig. 2, an edge elevation; Fig. 3, a transverse, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal, section of a skate-roller of my improved kind.

The improved roller has a groove formed within it at and around its periphery, which It is found in practlce that a skate-roller so constructed is preferable to one without cork in it, as it makes very much less noise in rerevolved to better advantage.

part of Letters Patent No. 285,783, dated October 2, 1883. Application filed July 17, I883. (No model.)

volving on a floor, wears it less, and can be Besides, it is not so liable to slip lateral1y,'and thereby cause a skater to fall down while suddenly turning about in skating.

I am aware that bicycle-wheels usually have elastic tires of rubber, and that carriagewheels have had elastic tires extendiugacross their periphery, and therefore I make no claim to such. Nor do I claim in rollerskates rubber springs or any other device adapted as shown or described in the United States Patent No. 243,761, or in that entitled Reissue N0. 7 ,345. In myskate-roller the cork does not extend entirely acrossithe periphery, but only partially across it, such cork being flanked by or depressed between bearing-surfaces of such periphery, which prevent it while in use from being contracted so as to be injured or.

broken.

' Itherefore claimas a new or improved manufacture A skate-roller grooved peripherically and having cork arranged in the groove, and flanked by bearingsurfaces or parts of the periphery, substantially as set forth.

EDWARD FRANCIS BALLoU.

Witnesses:

GEo. BALCOM, JOHN L. STONE. 

